Nintendo's WII -U will win the Holiday Season and the Next Gen IF

[Mr Khan]

landguy1 said:

Mr Khan said:

If you had merely excised that part, i would have no issue with the thread. "DoA" means "failure to launch," in my mind, which is categorically untrue for any major-manufacturer console, which i feel is over-the-top

That's the benefit of opinions, we all have them.  I don't share yours.  We are here to discuss things about game ore whatever based on the thread. 

I think the concept of the WiiU is DOA.  They can't change their mind and drop parts of the console and keep selling them.  So, I think that it failed in design and that's my viewpoint. I never said it won't sell 20+ million of them, but after the Wii, anything less than 50 Million is a complete failure in the consumers eyes.  In 12 months or so, we will find out if the XB1 is DOA based on thier insistence to include the Kinect.  The only difference for them is that they can change by dropping that requirement.  I have yet to purchase a WiiU, but if my kids beome intrested at some point, I would consider it for them.  I personally wouldn't play it much, but if I had one I could be convinced otherwise.  I think that the average consumer probably won't purchase a WiiU based on the reason in my earlier post.   As we all know, only time will tell.

Fair enough, it's a semantics thing. I tend to think dead rather means "dead." Not "unpopular" but "dead."